Mon.Aug 12, 2019

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Make Your “Summer Resolutions” a Reality This School Year

Catlin Tucker

As another school year approaches, teachers are scrambling to set up classrooms, make photocopies of syllabi, attend mandatory meetings, and prepare their curriculum. Amid the back-to-school frenzy, it is easy to focus on the minutia and lose sight of our “summer resolutions.” I know a lot of teachers who spend the summer reading, reflecting, and refocusing, but it is hard to take those resolutions we make in summer and put them into practice during the chaos of first few weeks of sc

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Close the Attitude Gap – Build a Bond from Day One

The CoolCatTeacher

Baruti Kafele on episode From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter He didn’t like school. But now he’s been a principal and written ten books and travels the world helping principals and educators learn how to engage today’s students — especially inner-city youth. Baruti Kafele has inspiring words for us on today’s Motivational Monday episode.

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The Art of Hiring in K-12 Companies: How to Attract New Employees Who Are a Fit

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

The CEO of ed-tech company Listenwise shares insight around finding the right people for K-12 sales and marketing jobs. The post The Art of Hiring in K-12 Companies: How to Attract New Employees Who Are a Fit appeared first on Market Brief.

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How Turning on Location Services Could Save Your Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Shoemaker on episode 542 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Pam Shoemaker is getting ready to retire from teaching. As she and her husband were returning home from looking for places to retire, a storm arose. While location services can be used to perhaps compromise our privacy, in this case, it may have saved Pam’s life.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

Ask a Tech Teacher

I teach a lot of online classes and as such, have used many different platforms. It’s clear to me that the course design–how I lay out the mix of resources, homework, classwork, and more–affects how students absorb and share knowledge. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors knows a lot about how course design impacts learning. He’s boiled it down to three suggestions.

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Q&A: Kern County School Administrators on the Data-Driven Student Success

EdTech Magazine

Q&A: Kern County School Administrators on the Data-Driven Student Success. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/12/2019 - 12:31. Nine school districts in Kern County, Calif., are participating in a pilot project designed to keep kids on the path to success, from kindergarten to career. . The Kern Integrated Data System will securely gather existing data streams, analyze that data and present it in dashboards to help educators and administrators ensure all students reach their full potential. .

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Tweet, Snap and Gram Your Way To Better School Communications

The Web20Classroom

My oldest daughter, Reaghan, is getting ready to be a 5th grader while my youngest, Chesney, will be a 1st grader this year. Heading back to school with them is one of the busiest times of year. There are lots of meetings, papers to read and fill out, and new things to learn about her school. As a parent, I rely heavily upon the communication efforts of the district and her school.

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Designing Empathy-Based Professional Development That Teachers Will Use

Edsurge

Em·pa·thy /?emp?TH?/ noun. The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy (Source: Participate) While there has been an increase in training around social-emotional learning (SEL) in K-12 classrooms, many professional development (PD) resources for educators treat SEL as a standalone subject rather than a foundational component of learning environments.

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Ten Inspiring Lessons From An Almost Analog Native … Back To School 2019

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is back to school time 2019 for many of us in the United States and beyond… welcome to the future! I dedicate this post to all of you wonderful educators. It is my hope that as many educators as possible read this post as they begin a new year journey… I hope you share and make this happen! (Via school emails and retweet to your friends). Please enjoy this reflective journey and send to others what I hope to be a teaching inspiration.

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Technology May Have to Kill Public Education to Save It

EdNews Daily

By CHARLES SOSNIK. We tend to speak in extremes these days. When online shopping replaces storefront shopping, we call it a Retail Apocalypse. In reality, consumers are simply making choices about how they want to buy. Technology didn’t kill retail shopping. It made it better. You will still have storefront shopping, particularly for things like clothing and furniture.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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What Can Traditional Higher Ed Learn From Hamburger U?

Edsurge

As colleges move into online education, they’re finding themselves in learning mode. And as they do their homework on how to set up and run their online programs, some colleges are even looking to other sectors, like the corporate trainings that big companies run for their employees online. That raises the question: Can traditional colleges learn anything from the likes of Hamburger U, McDonald’s famous inhouse training system?

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5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms

TeachThought - Learn better.

5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms by TeachThought Staff The main argument for technology in the classroom is that emerging students should be able to apply classroom concepts to daily life, and a large part of daily life revolves around technology. Students today are apt at using technology, and tools such as laptops, smart phones, […].

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6 things to look for when supporting student voice with edtech

eSchool News

When students feel like they are helping drive their education and have a say in their own learning—having student voice–achievement thrives. That’s been a given, even when education technology was only a pencil and paper. Many edtech tools promise to help promote student voice, but how can educators tell which to choose? Related content: How I give my students voice and choice.

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Understanding Autism: 10 Great Reads for Teachers and Parents

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is a collection of some popular books on autism. Get to explore the autistic world from multiple perspectives and learn more about the inner emotional life of autistic individuals. Some of these.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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10 great blended learning tools for schools

eSchool News

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world. In 2016, we launched our redesigned Blended Learning Universe (BLU)—a hub for resources and research, including a directory of schools practicing blended learning.

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MDM migration in 8 easy steps

Jamf on EdTech

Kyle Ericson, a systems engineer at a large manufacturing organization, explains how to easily move from an existing mobile device management (MDM) solution to Jamf.

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How to Use Your Private School’s Website to Increase Enrollment

Hubbli

Every school has a website these days. But having a website is not enough to increase enrollment numbers. Your website shouldn’t just work as a glorified digital flyer for your school. Instead, it should be viewed as an extension of your admissions department and used to actively recruit new students. Not sure how to turn a standard school website into an effective recruitment and enrollment machine?

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MDM migration in 8 easy steps

Jamf on EdTech

Kyle Ericson, a systems engineer at a large manufacturing organization, explains how to easily move from an existing mobile device management (MDM) solution to Jamf.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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How do we rebuild Kerala after the floods

Linways Technologies

The unused potential of our engineering colleges. Kerala has been trying to overcome massive flood damage to lives and property. During these hard times, it’s crucial that we all stand together and contribute to rebuilding the state in every way we can. Linways, being in the educational industry has been interacting with teachers and academicians for quite some time now, and we think one very interesting idea put forward by an academician could help us not just survive, but also to rise together

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Back to School Special

The Daring Librarian

A decade or so ago I started a series of Back to Special webinars with wonderful partners like my sweet friend Shannon Miller and for several years my two favorite mentees (who have since surpassed me!) Tiffany Whitehead and Jennifer LaGarde on the now defunct TLChat Cafe.but even before that, I've been creating BTSN PowePoints and also Google Presentation templates for my teachers for Back to School Night. ( 2013 ) Just a little something to make the start of the year easier for them and here's

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#TLTechLive is BACK!

techlearning

Tech and Learning Live is nothing short of inspirational. The dynamic speakers facilitated discussions and showcased innovative ideas on how they changed instruction. At #TLTechLive, I learned not only from all of the talented speakers, but all of the talented participants, too.

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OPINION: Do our divided schools look like a scene out of ‘Mean Girls’ — or a slide into white nationalism?

The Hechinger Report

You could say that summer is over. This month’s horrific shootings shocked many to the core, but the current generation of students has always known that gun violence is real. They have always seen our country divided into “us” and “them.”. As we begin another school year, forward-thinking teachers, administrators and parents realize that our young people have been born into a post-9/11 world, one in which terrorism — both international and domestic — has always been a part of their lives.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Education Elements Announces Grant to Help Implement Personalized Learning

techlearning

“By providing recipients with the tools and support they need, we can help drive positive change for schools, teachers, and students,” said Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements.

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Finding Math Throughout the Real World

edWeb.net

“One of the challenges of teaching math, particular in the United States is that school math seems to come from a different universe than life math.” In a recent edWebinar , Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D., Director of Professional Learning for ORIGO Education, underscored that we, as educators, need to help students engage in math by seeing math as something vital to them.

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Houghton Mifflin Announces Changes to Its Strategic and Technology Leadership

Marketplace K-12

Mike Evans, the former chief financial officer at McGraw-Hill Education, has been named the first-ever chief revenue officer at HMH. The post Houghton Mifflin Announces Changes to Its Strategic and Technology Leadership appeared first on Market Brief.

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Five-Star Game Creation Tool Shines

techlearning

GameMaker Studio 2 is the real deal; its drag-and-drop programming environment allows new game designers to jump right in and create 2D games.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.

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#EIE19 Early Registration Ends Friday!

ExcelinEd

Join Governor Jeb Bush and Excel in Ed for the 12th annual National Summit on Education Reform on November 20-21 in San Diego, CA. Reserve your spot to take advantage of early registration rates! Keynote Speakers. This year’s exceptional lineup of speakers and sessions will inspire and empower attendees to build a brighter future for our nation’s families.

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Laptop Mag Selects: MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Get Better and Cheaper for Back to School

techlearning

Just in time for back-to-school season, Apple has refreshed two of its most affordable MacBooks for 2019.

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Helping All Learners Achieve Success on Their Own Terms

Edsurge

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but to also put a mechanism in place to address those challenges. While the intentions behind an IEP are good, much work remains to be done.

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It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Are Some People Left-Handed?

techlearning

August 13th is Left-Hander's Day.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks